{"id":992605,"date":"2026-02-16T09:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992605"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:32:55","slug":"the-hidden-energy-cost-of-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/16\/the-hidden-energy-cost-of-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"The hidden energy cost of artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence has slipped quietly into everyday life. We don\u2019t just use AI anymore, we encounter it constantly. It appears when we search online, shop, navigate traffic, or let software autocomplete our thoughts. Even when we are not consciously engaging with AI, it is already working in the background.<\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt that AI holds enormous promise. It can improve productivity, help solve complex problems, and entertain us. I am not an AI skeptic. But the speed at which AI is being adopted is  a near-term consequence that deserves far more attention: electricity demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence has slipped quietly into everyday life. We don\u2019t just use AI anymore, we encounter it constantly. It appears when we search online, shop, navigate traffic, or let software autocomplete our thoughts. Even when we are not consciously engaging with AI, it is already working in the background. There is no doubt that AI holds enormous promise. It can improve productivity, help solve complex problems, and entertain us. I am not an AI skeptic. But the speed at which AI is being adopted is a near-term consequence that deserves far more attention: electricity demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}